Carol Bowers

POSITION: Massage therapist, Office of Health Education (OHE)YEARS AT PENN: 6 monthsWHAT SHE DOES: Bowers provides 20-minute massage sessions for students, faculty and staff as part of the office’s wellness programs. Sessions are $20 for faculty and staff, $15 for students. The West Philly resident has been massaging Penn people since 2000 on a contract basis; OHE brought her on staff last September. She still has contracts with the Wharton and Nursing schools and several Penn departments.SESSIONS PER WEEK: 12CONTACT INFO: Call OHE at 215-573-3525

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“It’s a very confusing time. … This legislation has happened before we have a medical consensus about what to tell women.”

— Emily Conant, a professor of radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, on laws in 21 states that require doctors to tell women they have dense breast tissue, which can raise their risk for cancer and hide abnormalities. New breast-imaging technologies promise to detect more cancers in women, but can bring more false alarms as well. (The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 23, 2015)